Mental Break Threshold

Mental Break Threshold is a stat: As long as someone's Mood is below this level, they are in danger of having a mental break. Its minimum allowed value is 1. Its maximum allowed value is 50. Its default value is 5.

The base Mental Break Threshold is 35% and defines where the minor break risk range starts. This stat is capped at a maximum of 50% and a minimum of 1%.

Derived from the base Mental Break Threshold stat are the thresholds for Major and Extreme mental breaks. The threshold for a Major mental break is always 4/7 of the pawn's Mental Break Threshold stat. The threshold for an Extreme mental break is always 1/7 of the pawn's Mental Break Threshold stat.

Factors

• Nerves spectrum traits and Too Smart. Note that a given pawn can only have one of the following:
  • Iron-willed trait - lowers threshold by −18%
  • Steadfast trait - lowers threshold by −9%
  • Nervous trait - raises threshold by +8%
  • Volatile trait - raises threshold by +15%
  • Too smart trait - raises threshold by +12%
• Neurotic spectrum traits. Note that a given pawn can only have one of the following:
  • Neurotic trait - raises threshold by +8%
  • Very neurotic trait - raises threshold by +14%

Trait combination	Break Threshold
	Minor	Major	Extreme
None	35%	20%	5%
Iron-willed	17%	10%	2%
Steadfast	26%	15%	4%
Nervous/Neurotic	43%	25%	6%
Volatile	50%	29%	7%
Too smart	47%	27%	7%
Iron-willed + Neurotic	25%	14%	4%
Steadfast + Neurotic	34%	19%	5%
Nervous + Neurotic	51%	29%	7%
Volatile + Neurotic	58%	33%	8%
Too smart + Neurotic	55%	31%	8%
Very neurotic	49%	28%	7%
Iron-willed + Very neurotic	31%	18%	4%
Steadfast + Very neurotic	40%	23%	6%
Nervous + Very neurotic	57%	33%	8%
Volatile + Very neurotic	64%	37%	9%
Too smart + Very neurotic	61%	35%	9%

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